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1) Every year National Technology Day is observed on 11 May to highlight the important role of Science in our daily lives. What is the theme of the day for the year 2019?
a) Science and Technology for a Sustainable Future
b) Technology for inclusive and sustainable growth
c) Technology enablers of Startup India
d) Inclusive Innovation for India
e) None of these
2) The Central Bank of which of these countries has recently printed $50 note with spelling mistake of RESPONSIBILITY?
a) Germany
b) Britain
c) New Zealand
d) Australia
e) Switzerland
3) Ireland becomes second country to declare ‘climate emergency’. Which is the first country to declare climate emergency?
a) India
b) USA
c) UK
d) Germany
e) Singapore
4) The first global Mega-Science Exhibition ‘Vigyan Samagam’ was held in which city?
a) Chennai
b) Hyderabad
c) Pune
d) Mumbai
e) Amaravathi
5) Who has been named as the new Vice – Chairman of IFFCO?
a) Balvinder Singh Nakai
b) Dileep Sanghani
c) Udai Shanker Awasthi
d) Prem Chandra Munshi
e) None of these
6) The WTO Ministerial Meeting of the developing countries will be held in which Indian city in 2019?
a) Hyderabad
b) Mumbai
c) New Delhi
d) Gurugram
e) Noida
7) Which Indian company is going to acquire British toy-maker Hamleys for Rs. 620 crore?
a) Hot Wheels
b) Reliance
c) Funskool
d) Mattel Inc
e) None of these
8) Facebook has chosen which among the following countries as the centre for the global roll-out of WhatsApp pay?
a) Indonesia
b) India
c) Russia
d) Italy
e) London
9) Microprocessor AJIT is the first to be conceptualised, designed, developed and manufactured in India developed by which IIT?
a) IIT Madras
b) IIT Bombay
c) IIT Roorkee
d) IIT Delhi
e) IIT Khanpur
10) The ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander project has been launched by ___________
a) Jeff Bezos
b) Bill Gates
c) Larry Page
d) Mark Zuckerberg
e) Kevin Systrom
11) Which Indian airport has been ranked among the top 10 in the World as per a survey by Air Help?
a) Veer Savarkar International Airport
b) Trivandrum International Airport
c) Indira Gandhi International Airport
d) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
e) Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
12) Who wins the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship in Panchkula?
a) Mukesh Kumar
b) Amith Tiwari
c) Navtej Singh
d) Mahesh Chader
e) Naveen Kumar
13) Novelist and Sahitya Akademi Awardee Thoppil Mohamed Meeran dies aged 74. He wrotes novels in which language?
a) Bengali
b) Tamil
c) Marathi
d) Hindi
e) Urdu
Answers :
1) Answer: A)
Every year National Technology Day is observed on 11 May to highlight the important role of Science in our daily lives and encourage students to opt science as an option for career. On this day Shakti, the Pokhran nuclear test was held on 11 May, 1998. Theme for the year 2019 is Science and Technology for a Sustainable Future
2) Answer: D)
The Reserve Bank of Australia confirmed a printing error on the new 50 dollar note after a radio station posted a photo on social media sent in by a listener.An Instagram post by radio station Triple M revealed the typo mistake on the note just above the shoulder of Edith Cowan The note came into circulation on Oct. 18, 2018 with new security features designed to deter counterfeiting and with tactile elements for the visually impaired. Cowan was the first Australian woman to serve as a member of parliament from 1921 to 1924. She has featured on the reverse of Australia”s 50-dollar note since 1995
3) Answer: C)
Ireland has become the second country in the world to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency.Ireland followed in the footsteps of the United Kingdom, which declared a climate emergency earlier this month The governments of Wales and Scotland have also declared climate emergencies.
4) Answer: D)
India’s first global science exhibition, ‘Vigyan Samagam’, began at the Nehru Science Centre in Mumbai.This multi-venue science exhibition, which will take place in planned in the four cities – Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and New Delhi – is scheduled to take place for a duration of 11 months. This is jointly organised by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Department of Science and Technology (DST), the funding agencies of theses projects, the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) and Ministry of Culture.
5) Answer: B)
Cooperative major Iffco elected Balvinder Singh Nakai as its Chairman and Dileep Sanghani as Vice Chairman.The election was held at the 48th Annual General Body meeting of the Indian farmers fertiliser Cooperative (Iffco). Balvinder Singh Nakai is a farmer – co-operator – who has been deeply involved in providing strength to Indian cooperative movement for the last three decades
6) Answer: C)
The World Trade Organisation, WTO, ministerial meeting of developing countries will take place on 13-14 in New Delhi. It will provide an opportunity to the Ministers to discuss various issues and the way forward. On the first day, there will be a meeting of senior officers of the participating countries. Sixteen developing countries and six Least Developed Countries are participating in the meeting.
7) Answer: B)
The Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries announced it will acquire iconic British toy maker Hamleys, a 259-year-old toy-maker, for around Rs. 620 crore (nearly 68 million pounds) in an all-cash deal. It is currently owned by Chinese fashion conglomerate C Banner International, which had acquired it for 100 million pounds in 2015. Hamleys started with a single-store shop, Noah’s Ark, in 1760. It now has 167 stores across 18 countries. Besides the UK, it has stores in China, Germany, Russia, India, South Africa and West Asia.
8) Answer: E)
Facebook has chosen London as the centre for the global roll-out of WhatsApp pay, before the social media giant launches its digital payments service on the mobile messaging platform in India. WhatsApp, which has 1.5 billion users globally, would hire nearly 100 people in London to focus on the digital payments service and additional operations staff would be hired in Dublin. Facebook chose the UK, where WhatsApp is far more popular than the US, because it attracts a multicultural workforce from many of the countries
9) Answer: B)
Engineers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) have developed a microprocessor called AJIT, the first to be conceptualised, designed, developed and manufactured in India. The innovation, which has brought industry, academia and the government together, could reduce the country’s dependence on imports. The project was funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and IIT Bombay. Powai Labs, a Mumbai-based company, has invested in the venture, and will own, market and support the product.
10) Answer: A)
Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world and head of space company Blue Origin, announced his intent to participate in the new race to the Moon with a high-tech lander to carry vehicles and equipment.Blue Moon is a vehicle and has been under development for the last three years. However, no specific date of launch has been announced by Jeff yet.The vehicle will be capable of carrying scientific instruments, four self-driving rovers and a future pressurised vehicle for humans.
11) Answer: D)
Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport has been ranked as the world’s eighth best in a survey conducted by AirHelp.According to the survey, Hamad International Airport in Doha in Qatar was rated the world’s best airport with 8.39 out of 10, followed by Tokyo International Airport in Japan and Athens International Airport in Greece. The Hyderabad airport was ranked eighth, with a score of 8.27 out of 10, just below Singapore’s Changi Airport and above the Tenerife North Airport in Spain. Kuwait International Airport and Lisbon Portela Airport in Portugal were given the least scores in the survey.
12) Answer: A)
Seasoned golfer Mukesh win the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship in Panchkula.This was his 20th title on the TATA Steel PGTI (Professional Golf Tour of India).
13) Answer: B)
Noted Tamil novelist and Sahitya Akademi Award winner Thoppil Mohamed Meeran has passed away. Meeran authored several novels in Tamil and Malayalam and won the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel “Saaivu Naarkkali” (reclining chair) in 1997. Meeran received a total of eight awards, including the Sahitya Akademi Award and Tamil Nadu Kalai Ilakkiya Perumantram Award (in 1992)
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